Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Today's story in the Commercial Appeal makes it clear that Shelby County Schools (SCS) are in a big hurry to close the deal to keep large numbers of County students from going to the municipal boutique districts that sprang into existence when the threat of consolidation made it clear that they, otherwise, would have been in the same school system as all the poor black kids in Memphis.

Hanging on to large numbers
of the poorer County students that, otherwise, would end up in the municipal
districts serves SCS in two ways: 1) it helps to cover the $212 million loss ofthe thousands of students to apartheid corporate charter reform schools in
Memphis, without acknowledging the loss, and 2) it provides future targets for
corporate segregation schools beyond the urban core. With the State's bottom
five percent of schools targeted for turnover each year, you only have to be in
the lower half of test performers to get charterized within the next ten years.